I've seen lots of coverage recently of various campaigns designed to empower our daughters and to encourage them to grow up into strong women who know they can achieve anything they want to achieve in life.And as the parent of a 14 year old girl, I wholeheartedly agree with this campaign, I really do!I even started writing an entirely different blog post to this one with my thoughts on what we can do to encourage our daughters to be the very best they can.  I got as far as making this little blog graphic to go with the post before something dawned on me....I realised that there … [Read more...]

Source: Pixabay The planet is our home, and we should do all what we can to help the land we stand on and also teach our children what small things they can do to make a big difference.You can start with Earth Day which is celebrated on the 22nd April this year, is an initiative aimed at raising money through the raising of awareness for Planet Earth.  Earth day is celebrated by so many people across the world and the day itself is always a huge success but what about the rest of the year....Here's five simple ways to help the planet that don’t cost the earth at the same time (see … [Read more...]

I'm trying to be more aware of the costs of our meals lately so I can share my cheapest meals with you in a series of posts and the first thing I thought of was homemade pizza.I work this out to be around 50p a portion for a plan pizza and that's based on one batch of dough making two pizzas.  We serve ours with sweet potato fries but you could just serve it with whatever you have in - salad, veggies, normal potatoes or even just on it's own depending how hungry your family can get.For the homemade pizza base (makes 2 small or one large pizza):500g strong white bread flour … [Read more...]

Miss Frugal is ridiculously excited about our fast approaching trip to New York!Even though we don't go for another two weeks (12 sleeps if we're being exact), she's spent some time today packing her carry on bag for the plane journey.  She's been itching to pack it for a few weeks to be honest so there was no stopping her today when she saw me bringing one of the suitcases from the garage this morning.I got her to take a photo of it all for you so you could see exactly what she considers to be her 'essentials' for a transatlantic flight.  And just in case you're interested, she's … [Read more...]

I think I've probably mentioned my slow cooker bolognese recipe about a million times on here but I don't think I've ever actually blogged the full on version for you!  I'm sat here now with the amazing smell of it wafting through the house so I thought today was as good as any day to share my famous (in my own head) slow cooker bolognese recipe with you all! Slow cooker bolognese2 garlic cloves, crushed or very finely chopped 1 onion, diced finely 500g minced beef 200ml red wine (or the same amount of chicken or beef stock) 2 tins of chopped tomato 4 tbsp tomato puree … [Read more...]